This clock, which for over four hundred years has recorded the passing of the hours for the towns-people of Rye, was made during the years 1560-2 by a man from Winchelsea named Lewys Billiard. The Churchwarden's accounts show the cost to have been £33.18.0. which would have been about £250
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St Michael's is mentioned in the Domesday Survey, and sits near the summit of the plateau in which much of the parish of Playden is found. The Friends of Playden Church is a registered charity dedicated to helping to maintain the fabric of the beautiful Norman Church of St Michael.
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For almost 900 years the Parish Church of Rye, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, has dominated the hill on which the old town stands. It has stood through good times and bad. In 1377 when the town was looted and set on fire by French invaders the church was
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The Church of St Peter & St Paul, Peasmarsh lies about a mile to the south of the village. It is sited on one of the only two areas in the parish to rise above 65 metres and commands fine views over the Rother and the Tillingham valleys. Peasmarsh, known
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St Laurence Church is the Parish Church for Hawkhurst and is the centre of the spiritual, social and community life in the village. The Church Council has been pleased to generously support the Hawkhurst Community Partnership as a part of the church's mission to the parishioners in Hawkhurst and the
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An ancient parish church, parts of which date from the 11th Century. The church was heavily restored in 1897, and further alterations took place in 1955 and 1972. Now part of the Benefice of Brede with Udimore, this church continues to sing God's praise and celebrate the sacraments.
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